On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > The Crawford and Wu model of public utility doesn't provide any sensible > basis for regulation that I can see, and the model has shifted significantly > from the old sense of net neutrality which once related to CLECs and > unbundling of services,
Suresh, you're completely ignoring the wealth of economic research that has been done around the idea of essential facilities / public utilities. See, for instance, Suzanne Scotchmer's paper on this topic last year, before she passed away unexpectedly earlier this year: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2407071